Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 15, 1903, Page 14

s TR THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. E. ROSBEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF 8U B!LRIPI"ION ly )u (without Bunday), and Sunday, One Y , One Year y Bee, One Tventieth Century ¥armer, One You DELIVERED BY CARRIER. D::.\r (without Bunday), Bt €OpY...: 3¢ without Sunday), 'DAlNY Bes (mcinaing Bunday), por wenl ate un vening Bes (without vening Bee (Including Sun ‘week Complaints of irregul in delivery should be addressed to Clly Clreuiation De- partment. OFFIC EI maha—The Bee Bufid uth Omnn--»Clly Hlll Bulldln(‘ Twen- ty-Nfth and M 8 Counell Btszis Fr grrse. Lhicago—] n ul hew"orl—!’ Plyrl Row Julldln‘ Washington—301 Fourteenth CORRESPONDENC G Communications relating to news and ad- {torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, "kdltoriai Department. REMITTANCES. ft, express or postal order, Bee Publishing Company. accepted In yment of l?. nal checks, except on change, not acce| l.fl G COMPA Accounts. Oll*_ln Of eastern ex 'HE BEE PUBLISHI STATEMENT OF CXRCULATIONA !Isll of Nobrllk:e‘h Cvunt . i, ‘he tual numlnr of full duly -vwrn. say I and wmpl.(o o Morning, Kvenini ,n’uny Bee vrl-tod during _the mon ot anuary, 1908, was as follow! . 80,420 1 Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales.. Net average sales. ono B. Bul presence and o before me lhll Illvt day of Jln\llrv. 1908, M. B ATE, (Seal.) ‘Notary Pubile. eEE—————— These automoblle shows seem now to De all the go. ——— In all these pay increases for railway men, the sleeping car porter seems to have been negligently overlooked. eE—— It the coal dealers were up to snuff they would import some of that 66 de- grees below zero weather from Dawson Oity. S—mp— Bradstreet's report that labor Is scarce in the lumber camps might have added also that lumber Is scarce in the labor camps. Ee— Mr. Rockefeller explains that when contalning $50,000 will not create very. wide-spread alarm. Not many. of us have been expecting remittances of that size. e—— The coal strike arbitrators could learn & thing or two in the way of expediting Business by copying after the arbi- trators of the Omaha job printers’ strike. — It looks as if the Mormon question would have to be threshed over in con- gress every time a mew senator or rep- resentative from Utah presents his credentials. — Another spasm of pretended indigna- tion is due from the first families of “the south over the musicale given In the White House at which coon songs bad a prominent place on the program. p—— The announcement Is going .the rounds that a Pittsburg firm has re- cently taken a single order for 7,200,000 quart bottles to be delivered this year. A pint at & time used to be the usual quantity carried in the pocket. e The assurance of Mr. Balfour that the Monroe doctrine has no enemlies in Great Britaln will be received with thanks, but taken for what it is worth. The best assurance of the integrity of the Monroe doctrine is the readiness of Uncle Sam to. enforce it against all violators. mT————————————= French scientists are claiming to have demonstrated by their experiments that silk can be produced in any color with- out belng dyed by feeding the sllk ‘worms with materials of corresponding shade. The next thing we will have ‘will be colored Easter eggs lald to order by hens dieted upon mixed palnts. —_—————— We note that the scheme for the fed- eration of church workers set in mo- tion at the Cbristian church convention held iIn Omaha last October is belng «dopted in other states, the churches of California bhaving recently organized along these lines. The very fact that the plan is belng favorably recelved and acted upon attests its merit and if it proves to be entirely successful the eredit for having originated the scheme should redound to Nebraska's benefit. m———t— Our prohibition friends have been very quiet on the subject of the repeal of constitutional prohibition by Ver- mont after & half century of experi- ment and experience with it. It will be remembered that when Nebraska was in the throes of its prohibition campaign, Vermont was held up as a paragon of temperance, where prohibi- tion was held to as the only true solu- But that changes take place in twenty years. \ AFTER PUBLICITY SUPERVISION. The initial movement for the repres- sion of trusts was taken ten years ago by the legislature of Minnesota in the shape of resolutions directing the gov- ernor of that state to call a national convention to discuss the trust menace and devise measures for the regulation or suppression of the trusts. In compliance with these resolutions Governor Knute Nelson, now United States senator, issued a call to the various states to appoint delegates to meet In national convention at Chi- cago, June 5, 1803. From the outset there was a sharp cleavage between the extremists under the leadership of General Weaver, Ignatius Donnelly and Henry D. Lloyd, who advocated the abolition of all corporations, and the conservative element, led by Gov- ernor Nelson and Congressman Taw- ney, who recognized In the trusts a natural outgrowth of industrial evolu- tion that called for regulation and re- pression rather than drastic legislation. The test of relative strength came In the contest over the chairmanship of the committee on resolutions, the de- structonlsts supporting Ignatius Don- nelly and the conservatives rallylng to the support of the editor of The Bee, whose election by a decisive majority culminated in the adoption of resolu- tions expressive of the consensus of opinion as to the most rational method of dealing with the trusts. The resolutions favored the organiza- tion of a national anti-trust league, whose influence should be exerted for the repression of the dangerous ten- dencles of the trust system through publicity and supervision. “As the first step in this direction an appeal was made to President Cleveland to recom- mend to congress the creation of a bureau, whose head should be clothed with substantially the same power in the supervision of corporations en- gaged in interstate commerce that are exercised by the comptroller of the cur- rency over the mational banks. Although there has been an unprece- dented Increase In the number of cor- porate combinations within the past ten years, and while geveral of the trusts organized within the past decade have assumed gigantic proportions, nearly all the men who have grappled with the trust problem concur in the opinion that publicity and supervision, as recommended by the first national anti- trust convention, will afford relief from the worst evils and abuses incident to the centralized capitalization and in- dustrial combination. This was the view held by President Roosevelt, as now formulated into law by con- gress, and it may be confidently ex- pected that under the searchlight of publicity tbe most dangerous practices of the trusts, stock watering and ficti- tlous capitalization, will bomme well nigh impossible. But publicity to be effective must be supplemented by supervision. It is not merely essentlal for the public safety that the widest publicity be given to the capitalization of the trusts and thelr financial operations, but authority must be vested In some de- partment of the govermment to call a halt upon every trust that seeks to ‘break down the safeguards provided by the government against fraudulent capitalization and wildeat financier- ing. This task will necessarily have to be imposed upon the head of one of the bureaus in the new department of commerce. Much will doubtless de- pend upon the character and capacity of the man entrusted with this great responsibility. In this respect, how- people, while the senate represents not only these, but also the Interests of capital In addition, ouglt to be one of the most powerful arguments In favor of the proposed change. If the house represents the Interests of all the peo- ple, why should the capitalistic class be entitled to a second and special rep- resentation In the senate? Why should capital bave an equal voice In one branch of the legislature with labor and then exclude labor from an equal voice with it in the other? Does this not give the whole case away that the senate has become the property, as it were, of the great corporate powers and merger magnates and that they can maintain a sure grip upon it only by manipulating legislatures to choose their creatures as senators who could never secure the popular endorsement of a direct election at the polls? The suggestion that the election of sen- ators by direct vote of the people would result in plurality cholce can have little weight with thinking people. Under the present system, senators often rep- resent nelther majorities nor plural- ties, but merely a small minority of corporation captains, who dictate leg- islative action by the use of corrupt in- fluences and the outright expenditure of colossal sums of money. These fac- tors might intrude into political conven- tlons, but they would have smaller room for play, and the common people with unpurchasable votes would have the final veto on every unsavory candidate. Not a single valid reason has yet been advanced anywhere .against an amendment of the constitution that will do away with the senatorial dead- locks and scandals in which so many of our legislatures have been involved. DEBAUCRING THE PRESS. One feature of the recently uncovered correspondence by which the railroad lobby at Lincoln endeavored to per- suade the editors of country newspa- pers to insert made-to-order articles justifying railroad tax shirking in their editorlal columns upon promise of pay- ment of any bill of expense they might render, calls for further emphasis. It is the insidious attempt to poison the public mind by corrupting the well- springs of public opinion. Several of the publishers who com- plied with the requisition from railroad headquarters have endeavored to cx- plain thelr action by asserting that they have advertising space to sell and that in printing the misleading appeals for tax exemption for the rallroads they were simply selling their wares to a purchaser willing to pay the price. There 1s a distinction as well as a dif- ference, however, between selling ad- vertising space to the rajlroads and seil- ing editorial opinions to the railroad lobby. Nearly every one of the newspapers addressed has an advertising contract with the different railroads of Nebraska and if it were intended to have articles prepared by the tax agents inserted advertising they would have been tran: mitted in the usual order with instrue- tlons to charge to the rallroad account. ‘What the lobby chiefs sought to do in offering matter to be Inserted in the editorial columns at the editor’s price was to buy the editor of the paper rather than space in the paper. The helnousness of such debauchery of the press can be only comprehended when Its disastrous consequences are realized. Every honest newspaper owes a duty to the public, whose betrayal can no more be justified than the treachery of a soldier in the fleld. If editorial opinions are to be bought and sold every powerful interest with a THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, ever, the chief of publicity and super- vision will not differ materially from the head of any other important bureau or branch of government where hon- esty and competency are prerequisites, — FRIVOLOUS OBJECTIONS. In explanation of the only yote cast in the Illinois state senate against the resolution calling on congress to sum- mon a national constitutional conven- tion to propose an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, the following statement was offered: 1 am opposed to the principle contained In thi solution, because it takes ay the guaranty of a conservative, careful policy in the congress of the United States. The house of representatives represents more properly the direct full treasury would command the en- tire press of the country and the wrongs of the people cry in vain for a champlon. In principle, 6ffering money to an ed- itor to distort pub'ic oninion for the purpose of tnfluencing the legislator to betray the Interests of his constituents is no different from offering the Ingis- lator the money outright to support the interests of the corporate bribe givers ns against those of the people he is elected to represent. In its essence, pay- ing the editor to fabricate justifications for dishonest lawmakers Is no different from paying venal lawmakers to be dis- honest. That the men who hire themselves out to engage as lobbyists in corruption work for the big rallroad corporations Interests of the people—the Interests |ShOUId In their depravity seek to de- of agriculturists, of mechanics and of | bauch the press as well as the legisla- the llb‘fll‘fl- Thet l'nhlud lfll .t llfl ture is not surprising. But we mistake not only represents these interests also but it riprt:enll the interests of capital, ::“ m’:‘:.“; '"“: the caliber of the ed- merchants and manufacturers. Why should | !tors of Nebraska newspapers if their the agriculturist or the mechanic or the | efforts prove successful. laborer have his house and not the mer- chant or manufacturer have his? If the request in this resolution is granted state conventions will propose candidates who will be elected by pluralities instead of by majorities. It these frivolous objections contain the whole argument against the demand for direct popular election of senators, the only wonder is that a single vote should be recorded against it in any legislative body except the senate of the Tnited States itself. In the first place, the plea that the guaranty of a conservative, careful policy on the part of congress can be preserved only by maintaining the present l‘hll‘l(‘l.r and composition of the senatge has no substantial founda- tion. As much radical or experimental THE ELKINS BILL. The passage by the house of repre- sentatives of the Elkins bill, which sup- plements the interstate commerce law and will render that act more effective, is an advance in anti-trust legislation of very great importance. There are some who are not quite satisfled that this legislation will be adequate for the pur- pose of regulating and controlling the combinations. They assert that the publicity it provides for is not suffi- clent. But that is a matter to be de- termined by the application of the law. Objection in advance of that Is uwot to be very seriously considered. Meanwhile it is interesting to know that the Elkins bill is mest favorably legislation originates in the senate as|regarded by the Interstate Commerce in the house and the brakes aré as|commission, It is viewed by that body often applied in the one end of the|as very materially strengthening the capitol as in the other. The retention | prosent law and there is no question of the longer term and subdivisions|that such is the case. The present law holding over, so as to make a perma-|bas been shown to be Inadequate for nent body, would retain for the senate|the purpose it was intended to subserve. all the stabllity it now enjoys, as com-| Everybody knows that to be the fact. pared with the house, changing com-| The rallroads have persistently disre- pletely every two years. This Is today | garded and defled the law as we now the real guaranty of senatorial con-|have it and there is every reason to be- servatism rather than the method of | lieve they will continue to do so unless circuitous election, tnere is additional legislation restrain- The frank admission that the lower}ing them. This is supplied by the HA- house of congress represents more|kins bill, which not only prohibits re- properly the direct interests of the|bates on the part of the rallroads, but also provides for the punishment of those who accept rebates. Thus under this law it s mads a criminal offense for persons to ask and accept a rebate, #o that not only the common carrier but the manufacturer or merchant can be held under the law for accepting a dis- crimination in freight rates. The justice and fairness of this prin- ciple we think no one will question. It alms to establish absolute equality be- tween a'l Interests and to maintain it Enforced, as undoubtedly it will be, we shall have in every part of the country an absolutely fair and proper regula- tion of frelght rates and consequently none of the lssues and controversies that are now continually arising. In a word, the Elkins blll gives promise of a settlement of pending rate contro- versies that will result to the benefit of the people as a whole. It may not be the final requirement, but it is a very long and declsive step In the right direction. ——— AN AMERICAN TRIUMPH. The United States has triumphed in the Venezuelan controversy and that issue may be regarded as practically settled so far as any danger of war is concerned. That is to say, the Euro- pean powers, having shown what ag- gression they dared to and put them- selves In an absolute warlike attitude that incidentally challenged the United States, have at last decided that it will be a wise policy to abandon their posi- tion in regard to Venezuela and permit the United States to have a controlling influence in the gettlement of the con- troversy. In other words, both Great Britain and Germany appear to have come to the conclusion that it is the part of wisdom to concede something to the greatest nation on earth and not to get Into a quarrel with a power which is today beyond question the foremost natiou, so far as influence and moral power are concerned, in the world. The position of the United States in regard to the Venezuelan dispute has been absolutely fair and straightfor- ward. Our government has simply sald to the European powers that it does not propose to shelter any of the southern countries from the payment of their obligations. The United States I8 not the protector of dishonest gov- ernments and will not shield them from responsibility for their just obligations. This has been adequately demon- strated and the southern countries ought to learn a lesson from the Venez- uelan matter which would be of per- manent value to them. If they have hitherto fancied that the United States would defend them in their dishonesty they must now understand that this country has no such idea, but on the contrary insists that all the common- wealths of this hemisphere shall act in good faith and failing to do so must suffer the corsequences. The adjustment of the Venezuelan dispute is a matter of very great im- portance. It Is a renewed and very great lesson In the influence of the United States. While our government has maintained a strictly neutral posi- tion, it has still been well understood that we had a very vital interest in the controversy and this has had its effect upon the powers. It is another evidence of the greatmess of American Influence in international affairs. SyT—— In wisconsin the railroads want to keep the tax, of 4 per cent of gross,rev- enues as their contribution to the ex- penses of government unchanged for fear that the adoption of a tax system subjecting their property to assessment the same as other property will make them pay more taxes, In Nebraska the same rallroads are content to pay on a valuation of their property rather than on gross receipts, provided only the valuation is made by officers whom they feel they can control. The differ- ence between Wisconsin and Nebraska must be explained on the theory that the rallroads jfear they might not be able to handle the officers constituting the assessment board there as easily as they have manipulated the assessment boards in Nebraska in the past. — The need of authority vested in the president to veto separate items in ap- propriation bills was never so apparent as it Is pow. One house or the other of congress is undertaking to load up these bllls with appropriations for all sorts of sinecure jobs over the protes of the department heads, who assert that they are not needed. A most fla- grant example Is found in the attempt to retain crooked Indlan agents, whose salaries were dropped In the estimates made by Indlan Commissioner Jones with & view to transferring the control of the reservations to the Indian school superintendents. If the president had the powef to veto separate items of the appropriations the political pull of the Indian agents woull avail them nolh- ing. According to the Washington corre- spondent of the Lincolu Journal, it is going to be a hard proposition to get the appropriation for the maintenance of the Indlan warehouse at Omaha restored to the bill that passed the house with that item struck out, be- cause the commissioner of Indlan af- fairs has made a report that the cost of the Omaha warchouse is excessive and out of all proportion to the bene- fits derived by the government. In the same dispatch it Is added: “If Senator Millard cannot get the item restored nobody can.” What about our Dave? 1Is he not still a full fledged congressman, with power-plenipotentiary until March 4 next? — A statement of the deposits In the savings banks of the state of New York shows that they were considerably more than a thousand million dollars at the end of last year and that during that year they had Increased more than $63, 000,000 Think of that for a single FEBRUARY 15, 1908. state and then carry the thought which it suggests over the entire country. Would it be an exaggeration to assume that for the nation at large the savings of last year were ten times the amount of those In the single stote of New York? We do not think it would and therefore It is perfectly leg'timate to assume that In the year 1002 the Amer- fean people put in the savings banks of the country at least $630,000,000 and probably more than that sum. Measured by such a fact, what a pro- gressive people we are and how sub- stantial 18 our reason for confidence In the future, — First Lessons Loot, Kansas City Sta Hawall has asked congress for $8,600,000 for public works this yesr. It has taken Hawall almost no time to learn that the United States treasury is a legitimate loat. k) Hoodooed Coin. Indlanapolis Now Governor, Taf! repol that the government of the mupplne- “has lost $1,277.941 by the slump in silver, and it wasn't trylng to corner the market, either, Decorated a T ed Breast. Boston Transcript. 1t Signor Mascagnl carries back no hoard of American s, at least he has re- celved the title of Chevalier of the Order of Bavoy In recognition of his American tribu- lations. Time Ripe for a Mu Chicago News. If a presidential fnvitation is in reality A “command,” as the soclal leaders of Washington assert, will the president kindly invite the social leaders to stop talking that kind of nonsense? Large School of Gudgeo Minneapolis Journal Anotber get-rich-quick concern is on the rocks. From the revelations coming out concerning the extent of its business, it would appear that the more improbable the allurements held out to investors the bet- ter the chance of getting the investments. Medical Progress. Loulsville Courler-Journal. An analysis of the philanthrople made in the United States during the 1 year shows that a larger sum has gone toward the alleviation of physical suffering, and work that gives promise of alleviating it, than toward any other cau This is dictation of a sound estimate of the relative importance of human needs. It is a fundamental philanthropy: bodily heaith is a condition precedent to mental, and evey to spiritual, growth. As Good as a Gold Mine. New York Tribune. The Wagner heirs are still drawing roy- alties of more than $100,000 a year from the production of the operas of the Teu- tonic composer. The music drama of Germany may not be quite as lucrative as the telephone patents in America, but it seems to be well buttressed and fortifisd financlally. How much did Shakespeare get for “Hamlet,” and what was paid to Milton for “Paradise Lost?’ This is a generation of big figures. ete———————— PRAISE FOR THE CLUB WOMAN. Club Life Quickens Energies Hitherto Dormant. Colller's Weekly. A woman who can hold a club together, ‘who can control a body of women, many of whom arc these same dromes, is not a woman who will manage her house, her husband or her children in a shiftless man- ner. The woman who organi. club must be a good housekeeper; she cannot help herself; it is born in her, and club life and organization only tend tq develop a char- acteristic which I will admit is dormant in many women and which ciub Iife quickens. You will find, if you are fortunate enough to be,invited to a clubwoman's house, ‘that everything will run llke clockwork. There will be no hitches. The servants will be perfectly drilled; system and order will prevall, simply because the woman has brought her talent for organization into her home as she has Into her club. You will also find that the woman who holds a prominent position in her club is also more companionable to her husband. The majority of clubs take up some spe- clal study, If political (and you know a woman never d things by halves), she will study the silver question or the tariff, or the trusts, and, in the end, her husband comes to look upon her as ln&nhlll‘-nl being, with whom he can discu 1ssu abstruse for her feminine understanding — PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, There are few signs of epring in it, but it is certain to arrive on schedule time. The Hudson Bay region is coming to the front as a diamond field. The press agent of the summer excursion season is “getting busy.” Miss Maud Gonne is' gone, for better or worse. His name Is McBride. The an- nouncement will make one or more Omaha hearts throb with grief. The crop of French sardl; is a fallure |t this year. But we have “somethiug just as good.” The art of printing French la- bels has reached perfection in Malne. The man Who caresses his nude dome as he reads of the wonders wrought by hair restoratives may be pardoned if he enter- tains a doubt or two about truth abiding with medicine. It is now proposed to build a rallroad bridge over Hell Gate, a noted locality in New York harbor. Apparently the water route cannot furnish & sufficient quantity of fresh, dry material. The oldest man in California has added two years to his century. He has been a smoker for eighty-five and & moderate drinker for seventy-five years, touched modern breakfast foods. A Boston professor says pretty girls do not make good wives. The professor talked for home comsumption and reached the spot. Fourteen federated clubs tossed him bo- quets adorned with pink and blue ribbons. A New York bride whese husband is a trainer of reptiles, pald him the compli- ment of wearing a wriggling snake as a necklace when the marrisge ceremony was performed. Such devotion passeth human understanding. “It strikes me as pecullarly appropria remarked the Saddle Creek philosopher be fondled a package from the Agricul- tural department, ‘for a congressman who jarred loose voted constituents beet seed.” People who put up 004 momey on prom- ises of from 6 to 13 per cent & month from turf and cereal investment companies can obtain some consolation by employing automatic kicking machine. These appll: ances are warranted to rub in grief io an impressive fashion. During & basket ball game in one of the New York's high schools the girl con- testants mussed each others’ hair, indulged in knockdowns and scratched faces in & shocking pner. Accounts of fraces neglect to state that the girls had & “per- foctly lovely time." s\ e ————————— T ——————— congregation, and the latter are missing no chance to pronounce. - fnfia obtained a raise in her busband's salary by golng upon the variety stage. It s ‘hoped {hat the example will not be widely fol- lowed, because some ministers’ wives can- not act & little bit. clergyman whom any juty of women would Only ba of such a case as that. | wite who went on the vaudeville stage to i help eke out a living income for her family poliical | day as American siock. Wo have had the ered too Dative Americans—the Indians—over S bt €t st pmainiad years, and have reduced them to & handtul | - Sought of harmiess imbeciles. There was the stock to gratt to! eftete Europe. We are anollapodrida. We are & hash, and a cheap boarding-house hash, at that. hash. But we still live, Our pheachers are talking for the newspapers. only their congregations for an audience they would talk differently. talking to the world thorities seem rather more certaln that they have secured the millions of dollars they they aimed to gather in. The contention that the church had made in the last four years was sharply disputed | These hard, we by Dr. Buckley Methodism, this stanch churchman asserted, was declining in the use disgulsing the fact. Dr. Buckl been in the habit of looking to the Metho- dist church Protestantism. But if the salt of Metho- dism has lost its savor, what is to be done? It may be assumed, however, that even it Dr. Buckley is correct, the church will be in nawi but cover lost ground in its ancient assurance NEYET | that the church militant is to become the church triumphant. «“Strongest in the World’’ The Equitable Lite Assurance Societv of the United States. HENRY B. HYDE, Founder. Outstanding Assurance, Dec. 31st, 1002. . .$1,202,446,5695.00 New Assurance Issued in 19002...a...... 281,249,044.00 Income in 1902.......... 69,007,012.25 Assets December 31, 1902......... 359,395,5637.72 Assurance Fund and all other Liabilities.. 284,268,040.95 oy L AT 1 ORGSR Paid Policy-Holders in 1902... . 29,191,250.79 JAMES W. ALEXANDER, President. JAMES H. HYDE, Vice President. H. D. NEELY, Mhnager for Nebraska, 404-405 Merchants National Bank Building, Omaha, Neb. “Strongest in the World” SECULAR SHOTS AT THE PULPIT. DOMESTIC PLI JANTRIES, - T'm sure your father 't ke Baltimore American: A New Jersey min e, -l'&; e % \ster named Dammes Is in trouble with Bis | ail’that ugh he's always very polite Mlow Jcoy—An; yes, thats Yeave I mun S dim: vou you Eaow. He—1 su) M‘!llt 1 shall heve to ask your t. 8he—No, . After the first time called u‘llc.'{" ight h':n iz 1 wuu-a"“ ou. and 1 have ong time.—Boston Transeript. Brooklyn Eagle: One mini wife has | Barker—Come over here, old man, 1 want Buffalo Express: There s a Jersey Oty | ¢ "lfoquce you to my wife. Park condemn after a moment's deliberation to [ We for three months in the capital punishment. In a marriage certifi- summer of erville Journal. cate he ndded ffty years o the bride’s age. | For the firet year of our married a5 o Was pyor. &"Shall have to five the" "rfinmm. dear,” sald the yi but had prospects, principaily on lov ‘ell, people ca cant m-‘ Geory cioser to him ing would meet the requirements Chicago Pos! The Brooklyn minister's has gone back home becsuse ber husband’s | Helen—Yes, social life ls wearing. I have salary has been increased. This may be a | S Mich on ",';(_('Pg:‘“ hint to other churches recognize that Goling to balls, ete. the laborer is worthy of his hire. Emily—But, imy dear every, time I saw New York Press: Priests who cannot | Jiouiders.—Philedeiphia Record t en in the world to e e B THE FOOL'S PRAYER. Edward Rowland Sill. The royal feast was done: the kin e out some new sport to Ltnh. But we preferred the scum of The Am-r delfild his cap and hL‘ e lnoelhx By and by we shall be a re- ‘PIDIII Thl‘ g ind the pllnhd lfl Hy bowed | his head It they had volce arose: h 1 0 e, & tool! "No Dll)’. Lorfl oolllfl change the heart From wrong_ to whm A8 _wool; e rod "aruior heal the sin; but, Lord, Bo ‘merciful to me, a fool! “ “Tia not by gullt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O, Lord, we stay; ‘Tis b‘ o\n‘ l hlt #0 loi We hold 'rom heaven aw: ““These elumlv (eal, mll in the mire, Go crushing blossome withe But they are Kansas City St The Methodist au- t out to raise for the new century than at they have saved the mumber of souls ,600,000 converts we thrust a friend. t opt-— M and The werd we had not sense to Who knows how grandly it nad “Qur faults no tenderness should ask-— 'l'hc chastenin ripes must cleanse them B‘l lor our blunders—oh, In sham: fore the eyes of heaven we tall! “Earth bears no balsam for mistakes; Men wn the knave, and scourge the meaning Among the heari-strings o “The ill-timed truth we Who knows how sharp in New York recently. 4 there was no t is to be hoped is mistaken. The country has “rung? the great evangelizing arm of dlsgouraged. 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